A new e-commerce function in the VARCommerce software for managing solution providers' business eases the development of custom e-commerce sites that can be built for clients' internal and external customers.

For the third year in a row, CRN asked VARs what vendors were their must-have partners for our Best Companies To Partner With study. Here are what companies fell off our list, and which companies returned or made their debut.

Bluewolf, a leading Salesforce partner, surveyed customers about their use of the Salesforce cloud platform and made some surprising discoveries that highlight the opportunities for solution providers.

IBM took to Las Vegas, where Amazon is holding its AWS Re:Invent conference, and plastered signage to try and steal Amazon's thunder and pitch IBM's cloud as enterprise-ready, but one AWS exec used Wednesday's keynote to dish the competitive rhetoric right back.